The New Minds Podcast NuMinds Enrichment

In this episode, NuMinds co-founder Justin Vawter turns the tables and interviews BEN about his journey as an educator, entereprenuer, and coach focused on purpose. Enjoy the rich and meantingful banter of these long-time friends and creators and get a meta-view of the New Minds podcast journey. Lots of surprise gems here that even Ben didn't see coming!

Ben's Links: 

Ben's Website

Numinds Enrichment

Harmonic Hands

The Purpose Lab

Instagram


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Today's guest, Michael Strong, is one of the most experienced designers of innovative school programs in the United States. His projects include a public school program in which minority female students gained four years’ worth of critical thinking gains in four months (on the Watson-Glaser). He later went into Montessori secondary school program design at The Judson Montessori School (San Antonio), The Emerson School, and Hacienda School. He created The Winston Academy, where middle school students passed AP exams, making it the most academically advanced school in the country at the time.

That's just the beginning! In this episode, Michael and Ben discuss his vision, motivation, and origin story as a school creator, as well as the state and future of education.

Michael is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.

Michael's Links:


Socratic Experience
Radical Social Corps
Conscious Capitalism

Ben's Links:


Education Unbound
NuMinds
Personal Site






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In this episode, two experts in pedagogy and mindfulness present a two-fold path to healing and reinvigorating classrooms as we enter a new era of learning. The best of the progressive Finnish approaches meets the cutting edge of mindfulness and social & emotional learning to present a way forward focused on physiological and psychological safety, a pedagogy of collaboration, and a focus on self-determination. The result...classrooms that flourish!

How do we find our way to a healthy, sustainable way of teaching and learning? Today's guest Petteri Elo, a Finnish educator who has become a world-wide speaker and trainer on the progressive Finnish approach to pedagogy, shares his insights experiences, and hopes for how we can create flourishing classrooms in the decades to come.



Petteri's Links: 


Educational Consulting

Ben's Links:


Education Unbound 
NuMinds 
Personal Site




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Amber O’Neal Johnston is an established authority on including diverse voices in traditional curriculum and infusing culture and love for others into an intentional home environment. She shares her observations on education, living books, and worldschooling at HeritageMom.com, and connects with followers on Instagram @heritagemomblog. She is a regular contributor to the wildly successful Wild + Free homeschooling community, a frequent podcast guest on popular shows, and a coveted speaker at boutique conferences.

In this episode, Amber and Ben discuss her journey from a traditional "mainstream career" to fierce practitioner, advocate, and inspiration for diverse, representative, whole-child based home-based education. 



Check out her site: https://heritagemom.com/


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Today's guest, Debbie Reber, is an author, podcaster, parenting advocate, and founder of Tilt Parenting, a community with the mission of changing the way difference is perceived and experienced in the world so that neurodiverse kids, and the parents raising them, can thrive in their schools, families, and lives.

In this rich conversation, Debbie and Ben unpack Debbie's term "differently wired" (the title of her book) and explore how it's an empowering metaphor to understand neurodivergence. We hear Debbie's personal story from challenged parent to thriving founder of a community of positive parenting activists. And stay tuned to the end for a bonus side-discussion on productivity hacks for busy creatives!

Debbie's Links:


Tilt Parenting
Debbie's Professional Site
Book



Ben's Links:


Education Unbound
NuMinds
Personal Site




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Nereida Garcia-Prado is a Educator Scholar Advocate. She has worked with and advocated for underserved gifted students for over 20 years. Nereida is currently the K-12 GATE program specialist for the Santa Ana Unified School District and board president of the Orange County Council for the Gifted.

In this podcast we discuss the challenges of identifying giftedness in underserved populations.

Links for Nereida Garcia-Prado:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/nereida-garcia-prado-0780a7153/

Links for Ben:


https://www.educationunbound.org/ 
https://www.numindsenrichment.com/
https://www.benjaminkoch.live/

Consider a DONATION to our non-profit, Education Unbound--helping underserved students flourish in the future of work!


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